You know how to make someone feel old, that's around the time I left school :)
#growstr #olives #Spain This is the visual equivalent of music to my ears. Even after two years of drought, the land still has the capacity to soak up massive amounts of rain and regreen. It's not Ireland or a perfect meadow but I'm happy with it so far.
Hey legacy fiat minded websites, don't tell me you value my privacy then display a message about how you and yiur 854 partners sre going to track me to hell and back.
If you cannot be honest about respecting my privacy what other BS lies are woven into your sales pitches?
You sound very young to be suffering like that. Need to put your brains before brawn now.
As you say, it's the mental adjustments that are hardest. As a species we can be a bit dim accepting limitations.
What I didn't realise is that your head is connected to your back.
I used to break down physically every 2-3 months, spend 2 weeks hobbling then feel physically fine and get back to doing too much, not realising the mental impact.
I don't recommend falling into that trap.
Take care of yourself. Cheers
I had to look twice at your pic. I just spotted a fungus growing on a trunk of an olive tree that looked just like the white blob in your photo. I'm 
FWIW, if you are one of those men that responds to the call to do all the heavy lifting and physically tough manual jobs, think ahead.
I can introduce you to 3 people who could work anyone into the ground. Until their backs went. For some it starts mid 40s, others get to mid 50s, but all here now with the same condition, wear and tear on their spine.
It was nothing especially to do with wrong sort of lifting, just bits wearing out. All end up with yoga or similar to realign and retrain the body, all living on just a final straw lift away from that grim searing bolt in the lower back for no good reason, turned to stone or on the floor.
I sit here as one of those 3, nursing myself through another few days of excruciating movement until everything loosens up for a few more months. Your health is everything. Sure it feels satisfying to battle through, to feel a sense of achievement to smile despite just wanting to lie down and dream of happier times when making a cup of tea was easy, but what a waste of energy.
We aren't machines. Especially don't fall for the games of exploiters of young strong people. You know, the boss who gets you to move shit by hand to save them money on a proper machine etc. They mean no harm really, but it is you who could pay most dearly.
#healthstr #homesteading
Want to know one reason why #flooding is getting worse? #nature was designed to be green. No green, no absorption of water. With no green, there is more dissipation of heat, drier soil, vicious cycle.
If your position is that the climate is changing, whatever the reason, then stop helping accelerate the effects by supporting lifestyle choices that mess with Nature.
If you think man-made climate change is a hoax, there is a lot of truth in that, but do us all a favour and please don't carry on as normal, messing with Nature.
Either way the recent flooding has the mark of man all over it and everyone, regardless of politics or fleeting grasp of climste science, needs to take responsibity for the impact of nature on society. (Note I didn't say it the other way round. That was to make it real.)
I am of course beyond reproach myself living a simple life eating local food, most of the time and not too fussed about being uncomfortable from time to time. :)
Just the computer, a phone, internet, the long tail infrastructure needed to support that, as well as clothes from who knows where, dependence on occasional transportation.
Yep, it is complicated.
But fundamentally I don't mess with the land that I am the current guardian of, so I sleep OK under fire from whatabouterists who don't have the resolve to make changes to what they know in their bones is a terrible direction of travel.
Totally agree. I think it also generates a good appreciation for energy. When you see the sun outside and flick through the dial on the inverter inside and watch the magic happen in real time.
I humbly and with some trepidation ask what you think of this note. It's coming from a good place, but it's not a happy note. nostr:nevent1qqs99a9vurw5waw7cvtm4sskks95jzdqffhaxp83davg4mqta8llg6gpzamhxue69uhkyarr9e4kcetwv3sh5afwvdhk6tczypa58vwt5nmcmrngf2q6pn6le48lg8stqeq3h2zq6e6u4wu7p4z6xqcyqqqqqqg0u3vp6
. Instead of exchanging art for money, exchange it for what you need. For example, Id offer to supply you with a dozen fresh eggs a week for 3 years for the Fargo painting, if I lived near you. 3 years that other people would see your work hanging on a wall, not sat on a dusty shelf. That's my nugget for the day
Time to refocus on #Naturestr . Tech, finance, bitcoin... tools not the master. 
Increasingly I think the Nostr protocol has more potential to change the world than Bitcoin.
Reading a few takes on different topics around Valencia and flooding, I'm starting to feel like the crazy person in the room. Could be! @Eric Cason do you think I got the wrong end of the stick?
Valencia floods, I don't get it. Those poor people who lost their lives, is all the attention on helping Valencia for them? I sound heartless when I think out loud that it is not for them
It sounds like politics is hard at work, the typical Spanish media looping footage, talking events to death Aren't they diverting attention away from first principle failures ie decades of poor planning and general hubris to keep on reshaping the environment despite knowing the DANA is a regular event.
This isn't just a failure of politicians. Valencianos know how weather works, and land use/ misuse. Go anywhere in Spain and local knowledge of the land is still very alive and well. It's one of the many reasons why I love this country. There's a lot of "real grounded people" here still. If you think the scale of flooding in Valencia is a left field shock? Sorry, I don't believe it.
society has been shitting on it's own doorstep, reworking cityscapes, landscapes, mountains, rivers and is increasingly getting caught short, caught out. Everyone knows water is cleverer than humans, right?
Instead of lamenting collapsed bridges, question why on earth the bridge was even there. But who's asking those questions?
This episode sounds like same old same old media event. Who shouts loudest..
Nostr can raise voices outside the party line.
We also had insane rains. 5 Kms upstream, 450 mm of rain in 24 hours, infrastructure didn't collapse catastrophically, but enough damage to financially set us back and no help. No help expected none asked for.
We are at 600m, land absorbed most of the rain that fell on it. No fancy drainage or govt infrastructure or grants, just groundcover and terracing to slow down water flow. But still, land has water capture limits. Another few hours of storm our place would have been inundated and adding to the water that had been gushing from the first minute straight off bare and eroded land all around down into the overbuilt environment below. In other words, there needn't have been any drama in the populated centres if thousands of hectares of land all around had done it's job. Who's talking about that?
Places in Teruel, a forgotten part of Spain, were completely flooded out, washed away but nobody from anywhere, let alone bitcoin cares.
Another crazy thought. What if I went around to my neighbours with 20 tons of hillside across their track saying I'm from Bitcoin and I'm here to help. How does that actually sound? Phoney as hell. Opportunist? Weird. I earn euros and I'm here to help. Has anyone in history ever said that?
If I'm missing something here, I'll hold my hands up but
A) bitcoin is money tech, a tool to facilitate action. It is not an identity.
B) Valencia draws water from parts of Spain where local supplies were curtailed - 2 year drought going on til last month.
C) Everyone who plays into the material comfort, super convenient lifestyle is playing right into creating more and more local environmental problems. There aren't enough tax dollars to keep up with that cycle and certainly not enough brain cells or backbone in the ruling classes to deal with the direction of travel.
Shakes head and gets on with life. GN.
Don't you think the main problem is that most people in well off nations want change without doing anything different?
Even if you had 100 live wires on the inside, a libertarian govt would still be looking at a nation where the vast majority would not react well to being told to go make a job.
Not saying it isn't a fine aim, but don't you remember how frustrated Maradona got when managing a team that literally couldn't do what he showed them over and over!
Its complicated :)
I have been to a few factories that boast Made in "this country". It's nonsense when you start looking into the source of the inventory of components. "Assembled here" is more realistic.
Even when components are made locally, there is chicanery. A bulb manufacturer got an order from a local aircraft co. It cost the manufacturer 60c to make, but they never realised their bulb was aeronautic quality. Sold it for $60.
When someone poo-poos an idea of yours they are basically saying " I won't do it so neither should you." Just got to get used to the idea that the black sheep lead the way.
When you think the daily grind is hard, take time out to watch this movie https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0386651/
Every time they leave the house they hug as if they will never see each other again, for good reason. That's how tough their life is.
I spent time with a group of volunteers on the Tibet border, who committed to growing and protecting a mushroom trade for the benefit of the local community. Even there, smugglers were working on screwing them over.
I'm sure Bitcoin would solve a few basic problems. Direct fair payments from anywhere in the world direct to villagers for a start.
Really pleased for Formstr, the Dev has been really helpful and I have integrated Formstr into a Ghost website for contact forms, and other form submissions. I will be allocating a decent % of income to regularly support Nostr Devs, nothing life changing like Open Sats, but putting something back in. LFG